I love this game’s Warzone Firefight, and not just because it’s PvE but it’s a specific kind of PvE: One that is match-based, but also has a sense of progression both over the course of a match and between matches. What other games provide an experience like this?
Granted, the progression in Warzone Firefight is hampered by the randomness of the REQ system, but I still find that the more I play, the more gameplay-affecting stuff I get to unlock and use, and that’s a blast.
The closest I’ve come to an experience like this is Titanfall 2’s excellent Frontier Defense mode that I sank over 100 hours into a few years ago. I also tried to scratch this itch with Destiny 2 but that game got too weird/grindy/cryptic over time. Is Gears 5’s Hoard mode anything like what I’m getting at here? What about other games?
I am not too familiar of this mode but I think Halo Reach and maybe ODST have a game mode similar to this which is in the Master Chief collection sometimes